HIGHLAND PARK LEIF ERIKSSON 70CL
| Bottle Size | 70cl |
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£49.99
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Tasting Notes
Viking gold, with amber lights. A gentle nose, with vanilla sponge and baked apples – Eve’s Pudding? – a hint of planed oak and a trace of spice, and behind these a scent of the sea: salt breeze and sweet seaweed, warm sand and sea-tangle; opens up gradually, to become more marmalade-like. Unreduced, the taste starts sweet, with some dry orange zest among the dusty oak notes lending a sharp, fresh edge. Drinks well, straight. With a splash of water, the nose becomes fruitier (pear drops, plums) and deeper (chocolate wafer biscuits) and gains a thread of smoke – a Highland Park signature. The taste is now sweeter and less zesty, but still with a memory of the sea – a very light saltiness, and some will recognise sweet Japanese seaweed – and that tell-tale whiff of smoke, particularly in the aftertaste
Distillery Notes
Most Northerly Scotch Whisky distillery in the world, same latitude as Alaska! Established in 1798 on Orkney Islands. Known for traditional distillation methods- floor malting and use of peat cut.
Viking gold, with amber lights. A gentle nose, with vanilla sponge and baked apples – Eve’s Pudding? – a hint of planed oak and a trace of spice, and behind these a scent of the sea: salt breeze and sweet seaweed, warm sand and sea-tangle; opens up gradually, to become more marmalade-like. Unreduced, the taste starts sweet, with some dry orange zest among the dusty oak notes lending a sharp, fresh edge. Drinks well, straight. With a splash of water, the nose becomes fruitier (pear drops, plums) and deeper (chocolate wafer biscuits) and gains a thread of smoke – a Highland Park signature. The taste is now sweeter and less zesty, but still with a memory of the sea – a very light saltiness, and some will recognise sweet Japanese seaweed – and that tell-tale whiff of smoke, particularly in the aftertaste
Distillery Notes
Most Northerly Scotch Whisky distillery in the world, same latitude as Alaska! Established in 1798 on Orkney Islands. Known for traditional distillation methods- floor malting and use of peat cut.
